Glastonbury worst I've seen!

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Eh? The oldies want to have fun too!

My mid teen can't stand her, too generic so horses for courses.

The BBC's response to Kneecap is a disgrace, I really hope they lose the broadcast rights when they renew soon.

Glastonbury always looks deeply unappealing to me, especially with all the boring old MEN that inevitably get booked as headliners yet again. I'd probably pay money not to see Coldplay or The Rolling Stones. As for this year, the promise of the abysmal Rod Stewart playing would have meant I would have avoiDed it like the plague without the added threat of Neil Young and a surprise appearance by the absolutely dreadful Lewis Capaldi!
I like a few The 1975 songs, though find Matty's voice grating and wouldn't want to sit through a whole set, still, most of one of my favourite albums probably wouldn't exist had Matty Healy not inspired many of the lyrics by being such a bad boyfriend, so I'll give them that!
There are some acts playing who I love, but I have been to several Charli XCX gigs and we were lucky enough to see the wonderful Olivia Rodrigo in Hyde Park on Friday so no need to go to Glastonbury for that. The Hyde Park BST all-dayer we went to was great, girl in red and Last Dinner Party both played before Olivia. It was lovely to see such a young and enthusiastic audience, probably a majority of the attendees were under eighteen and about 95% female and many were pre-teens and were so incredibly enthusiastic about seeing their idol play!

She is a genius. This is the song that was her first big success - no swear words in it.

He was declaiming.

Fuck me, Ian McKellen's just appeared on stage with the scissor sisters.

It looks like a very motley crew these days. All those random flags flying, what’s that all about??

I can’t imagine baking in 30 degree heat with all that malarkey going on around me.

Give me Ibiza classics with Pete Tong at the Royal Albert Hall or the O2 any day instead. Then off to my own bed and bathroom afterwards. Glastonbury looks boring and hard work. I’d pay not to go.

I thought it was me getting older but you couldn’t pay me to go now!

I thought Charli was really popular and was questioning why she wasn't on the Pyramid

I then saw her miming away and thought ah, that would be why

I know her audience probably didn't care, and her stage looked really busy, but she made me feel really old, I just didn't "get" any of it. The few bits I didn't mind were her rave type music accompanying some of her songs, but would have preferred it without her "singing"

I dont do tik tok and know she's popular there, so maybe that's why I dont get her

Should at least sing live and not mime, almost everyone else ive watched seemed able to

Neil Young Set List

Manson is a rapist

No, he didn't do Helpless. He did Harvest Moon and Like a Hurricane though.
Also, from what I remember off the top of my head, Sugar Mountain, When You Dance I Can Really Love, Why Do I Keep F*cking Up, Cinnamon Girl, The Needle And The Damage Done, Hey Hey My My, Rocking In the Free World and some newer ones I didn't recognise (but I've not really followed him for a decade or so)

I stand corrected then. There was bits that looked like she was singing and bits that didn't.

Playing devil's advocate here.

Starmer is dreadful for calling for Glastonbury to drop Kneecap, who called for the murder of MPs and are facing terror charges, but..

The MP who managed to get Marilyn Mansons gig pulled ... Isn't? Considering all charges against him have been dropped though it seems pretty clear he's an Awful Person.

Nerd Manson is an old hand at the Creating Outrage For Headlines game. Would the "we welcome all views" line from Glastonbury mean they'd have him play in 2027 (most bands are actually paying to be there)?

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/28/marilyn-manson-brighton-concert-cancelled-after-pressure-from-campaigners

And so she should be. My opinion along with the other 18 pages worth (which you didn't bother to comment on but only mine?) is just SO fucking important

Godfather of Grunge was awesome as usual. Sound quality on the acoustic songs was rubbish.

Yeah she's been around for ages. I think that's partly why she's so huge - she's got a fan base from at least three different scenes and they all seem to get behind the brat thing, whatever it means.

Indeed - I was looking for this too. Hoping it will be there tomorrow.

Mind you, it allowed me to stumble on Peter Capaldi joining Franz Ferdinand for Take me out - enjoyed that!

I thought Charli must be a youngster and was going to take that into account…but she’s 32.

I haven't watched the Neil young set yet so I don't know how he sounded but there does come a point where singers' voices go, it's entirely normal and an ageing thing. At that point they can either ignore it and trade off the fact that everyone will still pay to see a "name" or do something about it - change the arrangements, dodge the impossible notes, get some good backing singers around them, stage their performance differently. And yes it won't sound the same, but then hearing someone singing badly doesn't sound very nice anyway.

Raye don't half remind me of Amy Winehouse

Oh yes to Neil Young - he got better and better. Definitely giving the young ones a run for their money. Love the fact he hasn’t held the mike out for the audience to sing.

Loving neil young. Realise I know more of his songs than i realised. I always loved the 3 H's as I call them - helpless, harvest moon and like a hurricane but I missed a bit in the middle - did he do helpless?? Guess I'll need to catch up on iplayer!